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Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe / Kathleen P. Long.
Author
Long, Kathleen P., 1957-
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English
Published/Created
Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2006.
Description
x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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RC883 .L66 2006
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Intersexuality
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History
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Intersexuality
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Europe
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History
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16th century
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Renaissance
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Gender identity
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Europe
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16th century
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Alchemy
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Gender identity
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Europe
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Series
Women and gender in the early modern world
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Summary note
"Kathleen Long explores the use of the hermaphrodite in early modern culture wars, both to question traditional theorizations of gender roles and to reaffirm those views. These cultural conflicts were fueled by the discovery of a new world, by the Reformation and the backlash against it, by nascent republicanism directed against dissolute kings, and by the rise of empirical science and its subsequent confrontation with the traditional university system. For the Renaissance imagination, the hermaphrodite came to symbolize these profound and intense changes that swept across Europe, literally embodying these conflicts."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-253) and index.
Contents
Sexual dissonance : early modern scientific accounts of hermaphrodism
The cultural and medical construction of gender : Caspar Bauchin
Jacques Duval on hermaphrodites : culture wars in the medical profession
Hermetic hermaphrodites
Gender and power in the alchemical works of Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement
Lyric hermaphrodites
The royal hermaphrodite : Henry III of France
Hermaphrodites newly discovered : the cultural monsters of early modern France.
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ISBN
0754656098 ((alk. paper))
9780754656098 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2005032203
OCLC
62282098
Other standard number
99813992743
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